The Root Chakra is associated with the first task we undertake after birth, and that is to determine “Do I belong here?” …on this Earth and in this family system. It is not a conceptual question based on (thinking) cognition. It is instinctual.
Read moreMindfulness through Flowers
The flowers blooming all around you can be powerful meditation tools.
Read moreHow Seniors Can Boost Their Well-Being with Yoga and Meditation
Retirement is the perfect opportunity to pick up new wellness strategies for warding off illness and nurturing longevity. Yoga and meditation are two wonderful ways to accomplish this.
Read moreThoughts for Spring
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen. (Anne Lamott)
Love is all around us
When Valentine’s Day rolls around it’s easy to get caught up in thinking love is only about romance and fairy tales. But love is all around us. We see it, feel it, hear it, smell it, and touch it each and every day—if we open all our senses to it.
The Eight Similes of Illusion
The Radiant Buddha said:
Regard this fleeting world like this:
Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
like bubbles on a fast moving stream,
like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
like a candle flickering in a strong wind,
echos, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
and like a dream.
–The Eight Similes of Illusion, from the Prajna Paramita Sutras
Pratyahara — the power of stillness
Pratyahara, the fifth limb in Ashtanga yoga, means to consciously withdraw energy from the senses and the world. In yoga one way to begin to understand it is to practice the corpse pose. By remaining motionless and letting go of all stress and tension, you begin to achieve a wonderful state of stillness while the world goes on around you. You achieve a state of nonreaction—like a leaf floating on the water, you are in the world, but not of it.
Dancing with Cosmic Forces
The spiraling contortion of serpents indicates an expansion of knowledge as well as the undulating dance of cosmic forces.
Venus in Retrograde
Venus is in retrograde until November 16. This means the planet that rules love, harmony, and compassion goes into reverse motion. Old lovers or old issues can resurface during this six week cycle.
Read moreAcross planes of consciousness
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. ~Ram Dass
Buddha Mind
When training the mind, we cannot rely on external conditions.
Read moreSaluting the Sun
We bow to the sun in gratitude every morning as we rise and appreciate the breath of life.
Read moreFinding Happiness
“Floating Pig” found along the Vistula in Crakow
"Give happiness and you will end up happy," a quote found on a Yogi Tea tag, inspires us to find joy in the simple things we find around us.
Starry soul
And I wish that I could spend my days among the stars
filling up my soul with the cosmic drink of the universe.
~Bianca Hernandez
Be Present
Artwork by Eileen MacAvery Kane
“Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.”
~Pema Chodron
Buddha Meditation
Awareness is the key. But what does the word mean to you? To most people, perhaps, it denotes an acknowledgement of that which is going on around them in a general sort of way. In the context of meditation, however, it means ‘waking up’, becoming acutely sensitive, knowing, feeling, living the moment in its pristine state, sensing colors and contours, sounds, textures, smells, recognizing tendencies within oneself yet resisting the pull to be controlled by them — this is meditation, to begin with at least.
Read moreVirabhadra
Virabhadra is the “spiritual warrior,” who bravely does battle with the universal enemy, self-ignorance (avidya), the ultimate source of all our suffering.
Read more7 Chakras Spoken Word Guided Meditation
Relax with this guided meditation from Jason Stephenson
Balancing Your Chakras
Balance your chakras with the help of this reference chart, download PDF by clicking on link below:
Chakra Spirit Chart
Oneness
Photo by Eileen MacAvery Kane
The ancient Tao cultivators were subtle and mysterious. They were of immeasurable profundity. Because they were too subtle to be known, so reluctantly they were being described as follow:
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